Cutting and corinor



UNITED smns PATENT FFIcE.

vGEORGE C. WRIGHT, OF LEROY, OHIO.

CUTTING AND CORING- APPLES.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 28,935, dated June 26, 1860.

T o all whom vif may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE C. VRIGHT, of Leroy, in the county of Medina and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Cutting and Coring Apples; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, the same making a part of this specification.

In the said drawings, Figure l, is a. side elevation, Fig. 2, is an end elevation, and Fig. 3 is a plan view of the cutter board and cutters.

The same letters of reference denote like parts in all the gures.

The nature of my invention consists in the arrangement of the several parts of the machine in the manner hereinafter described.

To enable others skilled in the art to fully understand and construct and use my invention I will proceed to describe it.

In the drawings A A represent four upright posts which are secured to a lower platform or board, B;-rising from said platform or board, B, are four uprights C, to the upper end of which is secured the upper platform or cutter board D,-a plan or top view of which is shown in Fig. 3, and in which are shown two sets of cutting and coring knives, which are constructed as follows ,-a, is a long tube made of any suitable material, and the upper end of which is sharpened to a cutting edge ,-this forms the coring knife; and projecting radially therefrom are four (more or less) plates or knives b, which are secured to the coring knife in any suitable manner (as soldering or grooving) and the outer ends of these knives are secured to a flanged ring c, by means of which flanged ring, the cutters are secured by screws or bolts to the cutter platform, in which suitable apertures are made to receive the cutters.

E, is a slide arranged to work through suitable openings in the platforms B and D, and also through the chutes H and I, hereafter referred to ,-this slide is placed midway between the two sets ofkn1ves,and is provided with the cross-head F, which is of the curved form shown in Fig. 1, and the ends F, of which serve as plungers to force the apples down upon the knives ;-these plungers may be provided with suitable points d, to hold the apple properly to the knives.

J, J, are lugs attached to the under side of the lower platform, and to which the treadle K is pivoted as shown at e. The lower end of the slide E is attached to this treadle by a link connection as shown at Fig. 2.

L, is a spring, one end of which 1s secured at g, to the under side of platform B, and the other end of which, bears against the end of the slide E.

The inclined conductor or chute I-I, is arranged a short distance below the cutter platform, and is for the purpose of receiving the parts of the apple and delivering the same at the rear end of the machine the coring knives, a, pass through this conductor H, and the cores are delivered upon the inclined conductor I, which is so arranged below the chute H, as to receive and deliver the cores at the side, or end of the machine, separate from the other parts of the apple.

In operation the attendant with both hands places the apples in proper position upon the knives, and then presses his foot upon treadle K, forcing the slide downward, and with it the plungers F, F, until they come in contact with the knives, as shown by the red lines in the drawing, when by removing the pressure upon the treadle, the spring L, bearing against the lower end of slide E, causes the plungers to be thrown up into the position shown in the black lines the cores pass through the long tubular knives to the conductor I, and pass off the end ,-while other parts fall upon conductor I-I, and are delivered at the rear of the machine into any suitable receptacle for the purpose.

It is obvious that modifications may be made in the form of some of the parts without departing from the principles of my invention,-as for example, the cross-head may be made of T shape, instead of the curved form, shown in the drawing,-and the lower frame A, B, might be dispensed with, by lengthening the supports C, and providing suitable cross pieces to brace said supports and to Which to secure the lugs J, J, and spring L.

Havin thus fully described my invention,

5 what I c aim therein as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is,

The arrangement of the slide E, crosshead F, treadle K, spring L, and the cutting and coring knives a, b,-the several parts being constructed and combined for opera- 10 tion in the manner described for the purpose specified.

Gr. C. WRIGHT. Witnesses:

L. D. ELLIS, C. D. TILLINGHAST. 

